North and South Korea march under one flag during opening ceremony

Protestors have also hit out at the President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, as the Winter Olympics has been used as a matter to begin talks between the North and South.

Yo Jong is the first member of North Korea's ruling family to visit the South, while Kim Yong Nam, the hermit kingdom's nominal head of state, is the most senior official to make a cross-border trip.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is attending the opening ceremonies in part to reassure trilateral ties between South Korea, Japan and the US.

At the opening ceremony, Kim Yong Nam and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, waved to North and South Korean athletes who marched under a unified peninsula flag for the first time in a decade. They will be held from from February 9 to 25.

With worldwide media outlets focusing on the Olympics opening ceremony, Kim's presence and subsequently the North Korean system will receive a great deal of free airtime.

"As we speak, an estimated 100,000 North Korean citizens are labor in modern-day gulags", Pence said in speech to USA service members at Yokota Air Base in Japan before he arrived in South Korea.

Greek athletes traditionally started the Olympians' parade, which will end with North and South Korean athletes who will march under the flag symbolizing the unity of the Koreas. North Korea's goal after the Olympics will be to stop this exercise completely. "In accordance with Kim Jong Un's New Year's address, they are attempting to use the Olympic stage to promote a new image, from which they hope to benefit going forward", Lee added.

"For Abe to visit South Korea, we believe sends the wrong message to both North and South Korea and the rest of the world", he said.

US and South Korean defence chiefs agreed to suspend military drills during the games as a show of good will.

Trump and Kim have had a tense relationship since Trump took office, with Trump calling the North Korean leader "Little Rocket Man" and threatening retaliation against the country for its nuclear tests.

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Pence and Kim Yong-nam were being hosted by (South Korea) President Moon (Jae-in) before the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang. The sister of Kim Jong Un became the first member of her family to visit South Korea in more than 60 years this week.

"President Moon and President Trump are completely aligned in their objective for a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula", U.S. Los Angeles will host the Summer Olympics in 2028, more than four decades after the city last hosted the Games in 1984.

The move was hailed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and by leaders across much of the Israeli political spectrum. Free daily newspaper Israel Hayom carried some quotes Friday from an interview with Trump to be published next week.

So while relations between the U.S. and North Korea might be inching towards its lowest ebb, not so the North and South. The Russian team consisting of 168 participants will compete under the neutral flag because of the doping scandal.

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Along with the rest of the North's senior delegation, Kim Yo Jong was to have lunch with Moon at the presidential Blue House. North Korean officials, including Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong , were seated one row behind Pence.

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International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach, in his speech, alluded to doping by calling on athletes to "stay clean". The last summit was held in October 2007 between Roh Moo-hyun and Kim Jong Il, the father of the current North Korean leader.